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http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015918/brain-trust

A Brain Trust An innovative neuroscience research program at UCSB crosses disciplinary lines

https://www.nri.ucsb.edu/news/2015/new-treatment-macular-degeneration-0

A New Treatment for Macular Degeneration | Neuroscience Research Institute (NRI) | UC Santa Barbara A patient receives the first human eye cell transplant developed by a UCSB neuroscientist who founded the London Project to Cure Blindness By Julie Cohen

Congrats to NRI Researcher Megan Valentine!

Mechanical Engineering Professor Chosen as Fulbright Scholar Megan Valentine aims to strengthen research ties between UCSB and ESPCI ParisTech

NRI researchers examine a shape-shifting protein in the brain to learn more about how form affects function - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015037/body-s-transformers .dE7xB6Ww.dpuf

The Body’s Transformers Like the shape-shifting robots of “Transformers” fame, a unique class of proteins in the human body also has the ability to alter their configuration

Solving the Alzheimer's mystery A region in Colombia has long been cursed with Alzheimer's. Now doctors there and in Arizona are using the group to test an experimental treatment.

Big congratulations to NRI researcher Denise Montell!

Winning NIH’s Biggest Award Denise Montell will explore whether anastasis (from the Greek meaning “rising to life”) plays a role in cancer

This is Your Brain on Drugs An implantable biosensor may be the key to discovering the neurochemistry of drug addiction

Congratulations Pete! http://www.stemcell.ucsb.edu/news/2014/06/04/co-director-coffey-appointed-fellow-of-royal-society-of-arts/

Stem Cell News | Co-Director Coffey appointed Fellow of Royal Society of Arts Co-Director of the UCSB Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering, Pete Coffey, has been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in England. In their own words, the RSA is “an enlightenment organization committed to finding innovative practi…

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014172/which-way

Which Way is Up? Researchers in Denise Montell’s lab used fruit-fly ovaries to uncover how E-cadherin guides collective cell migration

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014271/exploring-how-part-nervous-system-develops

Exploring How the Nervous System Develops Patrick Keeley spent years analyzing different retinal cell types and found a remarkable degree of variation in cell number across 30 mouse strains

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014239/cure-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-requires-parallel-effort

A Cure for Alzheimer’s Requires a Parallel Team Effort For people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, the rate of progress in developing effective therapeutics has been unacceptably slow

Congrats Roxanne! http://www.stemcell.ucsb.edu/news/2014/06/09/roxanne-croze-chosen-to-attend-the-64th-annual-lindau-nobel-laureate-meeting-in-germany/

Stem Cell News | Roxanne Croze Chosen to Attend the 64th Annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in... Roxanne Croze, graduate student researcher in the Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering, was chosen as one of nineteen top student researchers in the U.S. and will convene with Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany. Roxanne will be among other student researchers from 80 different countries to p…